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sand particle, or gravel, occurs, taking up the whole of the wall 

 thickness. Some sherds are tempered with \ery small grains of sand, 

 forming a compact paste less contorted than when the larger particles 

 are utilized. Wall thickness is never uniform; neither is the vessel 

 perfectly symmetrical around the orifice. 



Kim, body, and base sherds indicate the various vessel shapes. 

 Fifteen percent of the total number of sherds of this group are either 

 rim or base sherds, which appears to be a rather high percentage. A 

 conoidal oUa or jar deep bodied, with a slightly constricted neck and 

 either a verticle or slightly everted rim — sometimes toward the termi- 

 nal phases of the site, with a suggestion of a rim strip — is common. 

 Similarly, a deep bowl corresponding in shape to the olla but lacking 

 the neck constriction is common during the time span represented. 

 Both the deep-bodied bowl and the olla have the characteristics at- 

 tributed to vessels associated with the Middle Woodland culture. At 

 a later date, but still well within the Middle Woodland, a subconoidal 

 shallow bowl was introduced, which constitutes a tliird major shape. 

 At this same time molded dippers — both miniature and utilitarian in 

 size — were introduced. Many of the miniature dippers were recovered 

 whole (pi. 58), while none of the larger ones were recovered com- 

 plete. 



In addition to dipper handles, other handle forms occur either 

 in the shape of pierced vertical lugs flush with the lip or in the form 

 of crudely molded loops placed well up on the neck portion of small 

 vessels. These are assigned to the Middle Woodland culture. Only 

 one vessel complete enough to indicate the correct position of this 

 type of handle was found. This is a small, deep-bodied, fabric- 

 impressed bowl (pi. 59, d) whose impressions consist of a series of 

 diagonally scored parallel trailing lines, which originate near the lip 

 and trail downward toward the base of the vessel. 



Added rim strips on the rims of oUas are fairly common during the 

 Late Woodland, giving a certain Iroquoian-like look to these vessels. 

 A great number of them are marked with a cord-wrapped paddle or 

 are textile-impressed, much like those fomid in the vicinity of the 

 Great Lakes region and in the Chesapeake-Potomac area of Holmes. 

 The strip upon one vessel may vary in width and be partially obliter- 

 ated by blending in with the walls of the rim. Widths may vary from 

 1.0 cm. to 3.0 cm. Most rim strips were unaltered but some were 

 pinched, ticked, or similarly treated along the outer portions of the 

 lip or on the strip itself. No punctations or incising were noted on 

 this feature. 



One individual sherd bearing a single row of punctations on the 

 lip region was found in the upper levels of tlie village midden. Since 

 this particular sherd is not very large, it is difficult to ascertam whether 



